TEXTBOOK ANALYSIS AND ANSWERS THE KITE CBSE – CLASS – VI – ENGLISH ABOUT THE POET

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HARRY BEHN

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BORN – September 24, 1898 United States.

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Died – September 6, 1973 United States.

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Harry Behn is known as a screenwriter and children’s
author.

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Notable works –

1) The big
parade (1925)

2) La Boheme
(1926)

3) Heels
angels (1930)

4) The
faraway Lurs (1963)

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Some word meanings

1. Blue – Here
sky

2. Dive – to
descend through air

3. Dip[ – to
lower and raise

4. Snaps –
to make sharp sound

5. Soars –
to fly upwards

6. Tides –
rise and fall in the air

7. Crest –
the highest part

8. Gust – a
sudden blast of wind

9. Slack –
to get loose

10.
Breeze – light wind

11. Roggeder – rough and worn

12. Flaps – to move up and down

TEXT
BOOK SOLUTIONS

Page – 28

Working with
the poem

1. List out the action words in the poem,

Dive, dip, snaps, soars rides climbs falls goes
wind run blows
fill goes see flaps

2. Read these lines from the poem:-

“The soars like a ship;

With
only a sail”.

The
movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called
a simile. Can you suggest what as who the following actions may be compared to?

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He runs like a cheetah

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He eats like an elephant

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She sings like a nightingale

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It shines like a jewel

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It flies like a bird

SUMMARY

The kite looks bright when it is in
the blue sky. It dives, dips, snaps and soars like a ship. Riding on the wind
the kite reaches to the crest. Immediately with a sudden gust it takes rest and
with the fall of the wind it goes loose. Then with the help of a new breeze
again it goes up. It seems to us to be raggeder when it flaps on a string in
the top of a tree.